Author Archives: "Gabriel Power"

With stock being a pricey commodity from the supermarkets there really is no excuse not to make your own at home. It will cost next to nothing, be minimal effort and can be frozen for a later convenience. Making homemade stock should be every cooks stock in trade… OK so while I am banging on

Leftovers may not be a sexy proposition for many. Gone are the days of eating a roast dinner on Sunday and then eating stew made from the leftover cuts all of the next week. But the fact is that dishes made from leftovers can be the tastiest and most exciting aspects of all cuisines… Food

Have you ever wondered why you are only meant to add stock by the ladleful when making risotto ? Why not just add it all at once and let it boil down like most other rice cooking methods? Well the answer has to do with achieving a perfectly creamy consistency. Making a good risotto is

Hey hey it’s summer time and you know what that means? Barbeques! Lots of barbeques! But along with barbeques comes overcooked, dry and burned meat. In fact this is a common problem with stove-top cooking as well… Keeping Meat Juicy When it comes to keeping your meat juicy and tender there really are only two

In the annals of history pies were originally invented to act as cases for warm food that could be taken on long journeys or as edible and inedible ‘lunchboxes’ for last night’s dinner leftovers – yes medieval pie crusts were completely inedible! No wonder they were obsessed with the devil in this age, for an

What do coffee and Jacques Cousteau have in common? The obvious answer may be conservation, but it is actually a boat. Or to be precise an old Jacques Cousteau ship that is now a high seas coffee roastery and Golden Bay cafe serving up some of the finest coffee this side of the (Abel) Tasman.

Fad? Fashion feasting for the free spirited flower child? Over-hyped healthy haute cuisine for high street hipsters? Raw food is certainly a growing trend and as such trend setters are casting aside their stove tops all across the countryside. But is it here to stay? Is raw food cool for a reason? Before you throw

Nothing ‘berries’ the gloom of winter more than a summery bountiful berry laden vegan cream chocolate tart raw recipe! A Little Bird told me this amazingly delicious raw recipe! At NOM NOM you will find we are into raw desserts. This is not because we are raw food purists or vegans, but we are obsessed

It is strange that talk of dinner etiquette can so often end in arguments – surely a breach of any etiquette guideline. But nothing divides people more than the question of how to use your fork… I found myself outnumbered, knife in hand and back to the wall. If the cause is right then I

Christmas can be stressful at the best of times. Preparing a feast for festive celebrations can overextend the most confident cooks. Cast aside the Christmas stress and celebrate the holiday season with tequila glazed ham… A cataclysmic calm descends upon many people a few weeks out from Christmas. The kind of calm where you can